Thread: reading and creating a file path

I wrote this program that reads a file on my drive and then puts an updated version of that file on the desktop. The program will reside in a different place. the path is something like this
output file "c:\documents and settings\greg\desktop\blahblahblah.htm"
input file "C:\documents and settings\greg\desktop\info.htm"

the complier won't read the path and throws a few warnings cause it wants to use '\' as an excape character.

i'm not sure what to do cause i've only rarely used file IO.

thanks for any help.

that's correct, compiler normally treats "\" (back slash) as an escape character, what you need to use is double back slash "\\" , which in turn is an escape character that "escapes and treats the next character as a back slash itself....

Code:

ex...
      
  "c:\\documents and settings\\greg\\desktop\\blahblahblah.htm"

also on some compilers you can simply use a "forward slash" "/" instead of double back slash, but remember that's compiler dependant....

hope this helps

Good luck

matheo917